Standards for ores and metals ensure quality, precision, and reliability in material testing, processing, and application. They provide guidelines for everything from hardness and tensile strength to plating and composition analysis, helping industries optimize performance, meet safety requirements, and maintain global consistency.

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Corrosion tests in artificial atmospheres — Salt spray tests

Copper, lead, zinc and nickel concentrates — Experimental methods for checking the precision of sampling

Steels — Micrographic determination of the apparent grain size

Metallic materials — Vickers hardness test
Part 1: Test method

Metallic materials — Rockwell hardness test
Part 1: Test method

Galvanic anodes for cathodic protection in seawater and saline sediments